Statens vegvesen (The Norwegian Public Roads Administration) has been assigned to review the E39 as a ferry-free road connection along the coast of Vestlandet, Western Norway. This includes, as one of the main priorities, the construction of an underwater tunnel that crosses the Romsdal Fjord. The c
Harkand has won a multi-million pound dive support contract from an undisclosed client. The contract award is for the Southern North Sea region and it’s expected to start later this month. Under the contract, Harkand will mobilise its dive support vessel the Harkand Atlantis to excavate and remove e
Ophir Energy plc has informed that its Tende-1 well in in East Pande licence offshore Tanzania, failed to find natural gas. The well, drilled by the Deepsea Metro I drillship, was targeting gas in a lower Cretaceous sandstone reservoir with a mean prospective resource estimate of 2.38TCF at a 15% ch
CCCC First Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. has won bid for the Phase 2 of the Legend Holdings engineering terminal project in Hebei Province, China. The contract, valued at 370 million yuan and with a construction period of 420 days, is for construction of universal break-bulk cargo berths in Caofeidia
First christmas tree systems for the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG project’s have arrived in Australia. The tree systems left the subsea manufacturing facility at Bridge of Don in Aberdeen, Scotland on 3 October and arrived at GE’s Jandakot facility in Western Australia on Friday 21 November 2014. Icht
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a contract worth USD 1.5 million for a research project in Brazil. The project will use 3D EM data to map shallow gas hydrates in the Pelotas Basin. The project is a collaboration between the Pontifical Catholic University (PUCRS) of Rio Grande do
British Columbia and Nisga’a Nation signed a benefit agreement assuring the Nation’s participation in B.C.’s LNG sector.
Technip was awarded a contract from Tupi BV, a consortium controlled by Petrobras Netherland BV (PNBV, 65%) and constituted also by BG (25%) and Galp (10%), for the ongoing development of the Iracema North field, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt area, Brazil. Aiming to meet pre-salt challenges,
PGASCOM has chosen the Coriant hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform to expand the capacity of its long haul submarine cable network that links Jakarta and Singapore. The hiT 7300 is an optical transport platform optimized for reliable and efficient transport in regional, long haul and ultra-long h
Russian oil giant Rosneft has begun shipment of crude oil extracted at the Northern Tip of Chayvo license off the coast of Sakhalin, with the first tanker carrying Sokol-grade crude leaving port on November 21. The tanker was loaded at the Sokol single-point oil terminal located 5.7 km east of DeKas
French oil services provider Technip has announced that, on Monday, November 10, 2014, it approached CGG to create a first tier oil and gas services provider. The proposed transaction would take the form of a public tender offer in cash for CGG’s shares at a price of 8.30 euros per share. This indus
Maersk Drilling has informed that its drillship Maersk Venturer has started operations for Total in Malaysia. Offshore Energy Today has recently reported that Maersk Venturer has secured a short term contract with oil major Total, and now the company has released an update on its Twitter account say
During the next week starting from November 24th 2014, the Port of Wells dredger “Kari Hege” will be engaged in dredging operations in the access channel at the Outer Harbor. Dredger “Kari Hege” will operate from Monday to Friday. Its normal area of work is in the main channel between buoy number 12
Turkey signed an extended LNG supply deal with Algeria.
